Reply to the 'Comment on "In Defence of Oxidation States"' by J. C. Green, Dalton Transactions , 2022, 51, DOI: 10.1039/D1DT02930D.
Nicholas C NormanPaul G PringlePublished in: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2022)
We reiterate and reinforce some of the points concerning oxidation states and the Covalent Bond Classification method we made in the Perspective article entitled 'In Defence of Oxidation States' including a brief discussion of the relative merits of the terms 'metathesis' and 'redox' when considering addition across a metal-metal bond.